TOP 5 RICHEST PERSONS IN SOUTH KOREA 2024 1.JAY Y .LEE As the executive chairman of Samsung Electronics, Jay Y. Lee leads the largest corporation in the nation. After his father passed away in 2020, the position had been empty until he was nominated to it in October of 2022. He was imprisoned in 2017 and accused of buying off a confidant of the previously detained former president, Park Geun-hye, but he was freed in 2018. After a retrial in January 2021, he received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence. After being granted a presidential pardon in 2022, Lee's 2017 conviction was expunged from his record. Prosecutors claimed that Lee was able to solidify his hold on the Samsung conglomerate by the merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015, which led to his acquittal on charges of stock manipulation in February 2024. NET WORTH:10.9 billion dollars($) 2.SEO JUNG-JIN Co-founder Seo Jung-jin founded Celltrion, a biopharmaceutical company that pr